Transportation & Logistics

Vinson & Elkins regularly represents businesses in many different areas of the transportation industry. Our lawyers have experience working with truckload, less-than truckload, heavy haul, open deck and specialty trucking carriers, logistics and intermodal providers, railcar companies, aviation companies, equipment lessors and manufacturers, service providers, financial institutions (including private equity and hedge funds and investment banks), and certain other industry participants in connection with transportation and logistics matters.

Chambers USA: Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide), 2023–2025

The Legal 500 US: Transportation: Aviation and Air Travel – Finance, 2022–2025

Our team collectively has decades of experience in the industry, providing us with a historical understanding, as well as the ability to give our clients practical advice in the context of current market trends. Our lawyers assist transportation and logistics clients in a variety of transactions, including strategic mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, capital markets offerings of public and private debt and equity securities (including initial public offerings), equipment lease transactions, and customer and supplier contracts, as well as in disputes and investigations. Additionally, lawyers in our Antitrust, Restructuring, Executive Benefits, Corporate Governance & Board Representation, Finance, Bankruptcy, Environmental, Intellectual Property, and Labor practices across the firm provide industry specific, tailored supplemental advice to our Transportation & Logistics team in such matters.

Transactions

Aleática, an IFM Investors portfolio company, in the issuance of a project bond and bank debt for the financing of the Autopista Río Magdalena 2 highway project, a major greenfield 4G toll road in Colombia (PFI Americas Transport Deal of the Year, 2021)
Boasso Global, a portfolio company of KKR, in its acquisition of Linden Bulk Transportation from Odyssey Logistics & Technology
FLASH, a leader in flexible technology solutions for urban real estate, in its acquisition of Parkonect, provider of a parking management technology platform
Funds managed by Ares Management in the acquisition and related financing of Atlas Crane Service, a full-service crane rental company that primarily serves the wind industry
Funds managed by Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of a majority interest in Composite Advanced Technologies, a leading provider of compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas and hydrogen transportation and storage solutions in the U.S.
Takkion Holdings, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, in connection with its acquisition of Renew Energy, a leading provider of operations and maintenance solutions serving the renewable energy market
Trimble Navigation, a developer of GPS systems and software including surveying, mapping and marine navigation equipment, in its $335 million acquisition of TMW Systems, which develops enterprise software for transportation and logistics companies
FLASH, the global leader in cloud parking software and mobility transformation, in its acquisition of Ticketech, the parking technology leader in New York City
Mercuria Investments in the $169 million acquisition of Beyond6, an alternative fuels solution platform supporting the decarbonization of heavy-truck transportation, from HC2 Holdings (now Innovate Corp. (NYSE: VATE))
ArcBest Corporation in its $100 million sale of FleetNet America, a provider of fleet maintenance and repair services, to Cox Automotive Mobility Solutions
Takkion Holdings, a subsidiary of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, in connection with the acquisition of a majority interest in Transportation Partners & Logistics, a leading provider of logistics, transportation, and supply chain management solutions serving renewable energy and industrial markets
ShippingEasy in the $55 million sale of the company to Stamps.com

(Tex.); (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi) – Obtained affirmance of unanimous intermediate appeals court ruling that Texas Central is classified as an interurban electric railway company with eminent-domain authority to build the high-speed train between Houston and Dallas—a ruling that reversed the trial court’s judgment, which had held that Texas Central did not qualify as such
(E.D. Mich.) — Defending a leading automobile parts supplier and its affiliates in what has been described as the largest class action multi-district litigation in U.S. courts; we also coordinated with counsel representing the client in parallel litigation in Canada and other countries; V&E negotiated a favorable settlement on behalf of our client in the largest cases and continues to represent the client in remaining claims by other putative classes
Successfully pursued breach of contract claims against a U.S. government prime contractor, a provider of integrated logistics, in an AAA-sponsored international arbitration resulting in recovery of $35 million (net) for the client; this matter was followed by another arbitration in which the client pursued breach damages for a subsequent contract period; recovered, via settlement, another $55 million (net) for client, after succeeding on a motion for summary judgment before the AAA tribunal
(E.D. Tex.) — Represented individual inventors as Plaintiffs in an action against two major automotive manufacturers on patents directed toward truck storage systems
Represented a port warehouse and short-haul trucking company on union matters in ports in California, New Jersey, and Ohio
(Ala. Circ. − Mobile Cnty.); (W.D. Ky.) — Represented one of the nation’s largest railroads in multiple putative class actions and individual toxic tort actions, arising out of a train derailment, in Kentucky state and federal courts and Alabama state court

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